 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 430 pages
...confession of a Benedictine abbot.—" My vOW of poverty has given me an hundred " thousand crowns a year ; my vow of obedience has raised me to " the rank of a tovereign prince." I forget the consequences of bit vow of chastity. CHAP, look.™ The monks themselves... | |
 | 1833 - 540 pages
...a-year, my vow of obedience has raised me to tha rank of a sovereign prince." ' Even in the unrcformed parts of the continent, however, and long before the...powers of the heads of monasteries, as well as those of "ihcr ecclesiastical persons, had been reduced to comparatively narrow limits ; and the sovereignty... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1836 - 424 pages
...confessfon of a Benedictine abbot, — 'My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year ; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince.' " The historian adds in his peculiar manner, " I forget the consequence of hia vow of chastity." —Decline... | |
 | 1844 - 530 pages
...abbot once frankly confessed—' My vow of poverty has given me one hundred thousand crowns a year—my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince.'" And this condition of princely state had its fruits, as might naturally be supposed; for the abbots... | |
 | Political science - 1845 - 908 pages
...frank confession of a Benedictine abbot : — ' My vow of poverty has given me 100,000 crowns a year, my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." " Even in the unreformed parts i of the Continent, however, and long before the French Revolution, the powers of the heads of monasteries,... | |
 | Political dictionary - 1845 - 916 pages
...frank confession of a Benedictine abbot : — ' My vow of poverty lias given me 100,oui) crowns a year, my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince.' " Even in the unrefor.neil pa rts of the Continent, however, and long before the French Revolution, the powers of... | |
 | Political science - 1848 - 536 pages
...frank confession of a Benedictine abbot : — ' My vow of poverty has given me 100,000 crowns a year, my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a...been reduced to comparatively narrow limits ; and the power both of abbots and bishops had been subjected in all material points to the civil authority.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 1034 pages
...corresponded to the extensive authority which he enjoyed within his abbey and throughout his domains. Even in the unreformed parts of the Continent, however, and long before the French Revolution, the power of abbots and priors, as well as of bishops, had been reduced to comparatively narrow limits,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 pages
...confession of a Benedictine abbot : " My vow of poverty has given me an hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of " obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." I forget the consequences of hU vow of chastity. M Pior, on Egyptian monk, allowed his sister to see... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Rome - 1856 - 752 pages
...of a Benedictine abbot : " My TOW of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year ; my TOW of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." — I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity. 68 Pior, an Egyptian monk, allowed Ms sister... | |
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I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince. 
